Plumbing the Depths in Lahore
Waste water inspections open up questions about bureaucratic processes and interactions. In the summer of 2015, the top tiers of the Punjab …
An Open Letter to My Grandchildren
Dear Dean and Mona, At four years old and ten months old, you are both too young to understand why the …
An Open Letter to My Children
Dear Nathaniel and Hannah, I am sorry that my generation has failed you. We have bequeathed you a world that has too many problems, …
It’s Never “Just a Symbol”
Symbolic anthropologists, take note. What’s in a symbol? Everything, when it comes to politics. Especially, election-year politics. And especially when a major …
Biting the hand that feeds
Misogyny at the Trinidad Guardian… Maybe I am a prude, but is it ok for a national newspaper to regularly publish a …
Biting the hand that feeds
Misogyny at the Trinidad Guardian… Maybe I am a prude, but is it ok for a national newspaper to regularly publish a …
Biting the hand that feeds
my last column for the Guardian under their current editor, who i think fired me for calling out his star columnist for …
Let Your Let Shine #UnitedWeStand #PrayfortheWorld
Let your light shine in the face of terror, hatred, and evil. Only if we stand united in love, will our inner …
Anthropology and the MidEast Crisis
There’s surely something to offend every political sensibility in this provocative essay just published by Liel Leibovitz in The Tablet. But for …
The Return of the Colonial
What logic connects Ferguson, Gaza and east Port of Spain? What cultural logics connect recent confrontations in Ferguson, Gaza, and east Port …
On Racial Profiling and the ‘While…’ Phenomenon
Following inquiries from some of my international readers, I would like to take a few moments to explain the title of this …
More open thoughts on anthropology and academia
Since my last blog post got picked up by Ryan at Savage Minds, related discussions on the subjects of academia, anthropology and …